Nature's descent from serious scientific publication to journal of record for the darker fringes of the green movement continues apace with a hilarious piece from hippie-chick editor, Olive Heffernan.

Olive's clearly a girl who's got her mind focused closely on here work because she is

someone who spends most waking hours thinking about climate change

and in a rational way too, no less! But she's a happy hippy at the moment because she's been able to drop the strictly rational approach of screaming "We're all going to fry!!" personified by Nature - she's been attending some workshops at which participants held hands and got in touch with their inner Karma

discussed objects relating to climate change that hold special personal significance, and ‘coaching’ sessions to think about how our own actions might make a difference.

Ah, to be a member of the scientific elite, eh? I wonder what Olive's special object was? A signed swimsuit pic of Al Gore astride a polar bear perhaps? A hockey stick?

Still the second bit - about ones own actions making a difference - that should have been pretty easy. The organiser of her seance workshop has also organised a trip to Greenland for a buch of scientists and assorted B list celebs. My suggestion would be that Olive persuades the silly airheads to stay at home and stop burning oil in the pursuit of fleeting attention from the media.